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Dr Adrian Danks

Position	Program Director Media
School / Work Unit	Applied Communication
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 3841 adrian.danks@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 6 Level: 6 Room: 12 City Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

 

Dr Adrian Danks is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema and Communication Studies, and Manager of the Contextual Studies Majors (including Cinema Studies, Asian Media and Culture, Literature and Philosophy, Communication, Business and Politics). He has coordinated and taught the following courses:

• COMM1031 Introduction to Cinema Studies
• COMM1032 Authorship and Narrative in the Cinema
• COMM1033 Australian Cinema
• COMM1035 Asian Cinemas
• COMM1036 Histories of Film Theory
• COMM2084 Reading Local, National and Global Cinemas
• HC341 Issues in Film Theory
• HC342 Modernism in the Cinema
• HM205 Postmodernism and Popular Culture
• HM206 Global Culture and Local Identity
• Cinema Industry Attachment

He has been co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque since 1988 (and President from 1988-2006), co-curator of the Australian Cinémathèque (1994-2005), editor of Cteq: Annotations on Film, published as part of Senses of Cinema (2000-ongoing), and was co-convenor of the 13^th Biennial Conference of the Film & History Association of Australia and New Zealand (2006). He has served on the film selection committees and judging panels of numerous organisations including the Melbourne International Film Festival, Experimenta, ReelDance and the Big West Festival, the Collections Board of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and presented and co-curated the Jean-Pierre Melville Retrospective at the 2006 Sydney Film Festival. He has also acted as a referee for various publications including: Senses of Cinema, Screening the Past, Continuum, Landscape Research, Studies in Australasian Cinema and Southern Review.

He has published widely on the cinematic representation of place, the relationship of domestic photography to cinema, film culture, film restoration, found footage cinema, home movies, Australian and Iranian cinema, and cinematic authorship. His writing has appeared in a range of books and journals including: Senses of Cinema, Metro, Screening the Past, Real-Time, Screen Education, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Traditions in World Cinema, 24 Frames: Australia and New Zealand, Go! Melbourne in the Sixties, and Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films. He is currently co-editing a book on overseas-financed films made in Australia (Australian International Pictures) and writing a monograph on the history of home movies in Australia.

Academic qualifications

2001

Doctorate of Philosophy (Cinema Studies)
LaTrobe University, Bundoora Campus
Dissertation: “To Become Immortal and then Die: The Representation of Home Photographic Materials in the Cinema”

1992

Bachelor of Arts (Honours - Cinema Studies)
LaTrobe University, Bundoora Campus
Thesis: “Deciphering the Indecipherable: Deconstruction and Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil”

1991

Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies)
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne

1988

Bachelor of Commerce
University of Melbourne, Parkville

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